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BE SURE YOU ARE RIGHT; TH.KN C+O AFEAB, ~TD Crockett VOL. 86. NO. 6. TARBORO, N. C. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6 1908. ESTABLISHED 1822 HEALTH INSURANCE The man who insures his life is wise for his family. , The man who insures his health is wise both for his family and himself. You may insure health by guard* tag it. It is worth guarding. At the first attack of disease, which generally approaches through the LIVER and mani fests itself in innumerable ways TAKE ——. And NOTICE. Having qualified as Adminis triors uf the estate of Jonn E. Calhoun, deceased, late of Edge cotube county, N. C., this is to notify all persqns having claims against the. estate of John E. Cal houn, to exhibit them to the un dersigned, at Rocky Mount, N. C.*, onjor before the 23rd day of Janu ary, 1909, or this noti'-e will be plead in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to sa d estate will please make immediate pay ment. This the 15 th day of .January, 1908. John L. Calhoun, A. B. Calhoun, Adm’rs.-of John E. Calhoun, J. P. Bunn, A tty. - Notice. §»e of Valuable Town Property. By virtue of the power contained i n the last will and testament of Jno. F. Bridgers, deceased, the under - sigued will, on Saturaay, Tim 25th day of January, 1908, at 12 m., of fer for sale, in the town of Maccles field, at public auction, to the highest bidder, all of the real es tate nelouging to the late Jno. F. Bridgei% located in the town of Macclesfield, NC., consisting of four lots, with houses on three ot said lots. All persons desiring in formation about tiii§ property ran obtain same by seeing, or writing Mr. Jimmie Forbes at Maccles field, N, C. The undersigned will have a description of the above described property on the day or sale: Terms of sale, cash. W. A. FINCH, Adm'r with will annexed. This, Jan’y 8, 1908. . EXECUTOR’S NOTICE. Having qualified as executor of the will of L. B. Knight, deceaiK|df late of Edgecombe county, N. 0., this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased, to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 9th day of January, 1909, or this notice will be pleaded in the bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make im mediate payment. This 7th day of January, 1908. Henry Jofnston, Executor of L. B. Knight. Noith Carolina, In superior Ct. Edgecombe Co. Term 1908. Richard Harris vs Estelle Harris The defendant above named will take notice that a^ action entitled as above has been commenced in the superior court of Edgecombe eounty to dissolve the bonds of matrimony existing between plain - tiff and defendant and the said defendant will further thake no tice that she is required to appear at the the March term 1908, oi the superior court of sahrconnty to be held on the 1st Monday in March, 1908, at the court house of said county,~ in Tarboro, N. C , and answix or demur to the complaint in said action, or the plaintiff will apply to the court lor the re’ief demanded in said complaint. This, 21 day of Jau’y, 1908. A. T WALSTON, C. S. C. LAND FOR SALE. I offer oiTeasy terras my land for silc at Coakley, this county 160 acres. Sixty acres open land, re mainder wood land, several hun hred dollars worth of mill timber on wood land. Store bou^e and other out houses on farm price $20 per acre. Correspondence solicit ed. Address me at Williamston, N. C. _ J. Bkink Cheeky. Congrdl^inan Tawney, chairman of the committee on appropriations warns his colleogu.-s they must face a deficir of $118,000,000 in the revenues of the government. Where! oh where! is republican prosperity gone? > The National Board of Trade is evidently controllei by the r pub licans, for at the annual banquet at Washington only republicans were invited to make speeches and those were of the siandpat order. Co ogress m >u Sherlcy of Ken tucky declares that 1 whiskey has no enemiei in the cloak rcom and on the door,” which although not actually the c.tse, comes very near telling the whole tiuth about Pro hibition in 'CongrC'S aud other legislative bodies. United States Senato* Gnggen heimer is having good success in controlling the pa rouage of Col orado. Trust magnate* seem to fttiil bo welcomed at the W hite House. CONSIDER THE CARRIER. Posftnistress Martin desires to call attention to the practice of some patrons of rural delivery of placing loose coins in their boxes each time they desire to dispatch letters instead of supplying them selves with postage in advance of their needs. This practice imposes undue hardship on rural carriers in re moving loose coins from boxes and delays them on the service of their routes. The postmaster, therefore, ur gently requests that patrons of rural delivery provide themselves and keep on hand a supply ot stamps consistent with and in ad vance of their needs. It is also very: desirable that rural patrons place in their mail boxes small detachable cups of wood or tin iii which] to place coins, w hen neces sary, in purchasing supplies of stamps. Cou’t wait for indigestion's call. Keep it out of the stomach by using Miona. Guaranteed to cure all stomach troubles or costs noth ing Macnair. NO RACE SUICIDE. ’Squire Pender had before him the other day Andrew Anthony, a colored man living on Caswell Sugg’s farm near Hartsease, charged with some petty offence. The charge with the evidence was trivial and when the ’Squire as certained that the man was the father of ten children, the oldest being only ten years old,, he told him to go and taxed no cost against anyone. During'iAndrew’s brief married life his better half has piesented him with four sets of twins and {wo singles. CHINESE LAW AGAINST BRIBERY. # The new draft criminal code of China contains stipulations against bribery, in which it is mentioned that any official who receiv# a bribe faboVe 3,000 taels will be cashieied aud banished to a mili tarypost road, with hard labor, and any who recejye mere than 10,000 tafels aud favors tl e psrson who gives bribes, against tn, laws, will be punched with death, and those wno send bribes will be punished similarly.—Shanghai Merrury. AREAL HERO. Wesley Jarrett, a railway sec tion man, gave np his life near Marion to save east bound passen ger train No. 11 from a wreck and probably death and injury to the 200 passenge.s on board. A section force, of which Jarrett was a mem ber, were working along the tracks of the Southern railway in attempt ingto straighten the track. A large railway jack was being used when No. 11 was heard approaching. An effort was made to remove the jack from the track, where it would have derailed the train and sent it headlong down the steep mountain side 500 feet.f The jaefe stuck and the com bined efforts of the entire sec tion ertw cduld not move it. When No. 11 was abnosc upon them all the crew, except Jarrett, fled for their lives Jarret threw himself iu fro'-t of the engine and succeeded in loosening the ja k, which rolIe L down the momt.iin. The trail* spent over him, ciushiDg him to death beneath its wheels. A weak stomach means weak stomach nerves, always. And this is also true of the heart and kid neys. It’s a pity that sick oues continue to drug the stomach or stimulate the heart and kidneys. The weak nerves, not the organs themselves, need this “help. This explains why Dr. Sboop’s Restor ative has, and is promptly helping so mmy sick ones. 1 goes direct to the cause of these diseases. Test this vital truth and see. Edgecomb Drug Ckr: ~ _ The Richmbod News-Leader be lieves that if left to a primary two thirds of the Democratic voters would request Mr. Bryan’s with drawal. Well if the Democratic party has descended to that stage that one third bosses the whole we do not see why M#. Bryan will not do well as anyone. It may be that Judge Parker was nomi nated by that now timorous^ two thirds. The Labor party in England has rejected by a large majority an amendment to the constitution oiudiog the party to socialism. The Federation of Labor of the U. It id States has taken the same w i e course. Who but those intent upon breaking up the Labor Union will say that organized labor is r.ot/safe and sane? Cascasweet, the well known remedy for babies ami children, wdl quiet the littde one in a short time. The ingredients are printed on the bottle. Contains no opiates. Sold by It E L Cook. O . ** <> • Beantho Bigutan af ANCIENT FRAUD EXPOSED. Just fifteen years ago the wolf was at the door of a republican administration. A large amount of bonds were engraved and on the point of being1' issued Then the Democrats took charge. They found the bottom of the Treasury staring at them and this pile of nice new bonds all ready for use. And as the troubles increased and the crops failed and the income tax was overthrown, the Demo ersts had finally to father those bonds to maintain the credit of the country. Straightway, with the assurance which only republi can politicans can carry off, they lai I everything to the Democrats, hard tintf#y~feoed issue, and all. Then when.conditions were rapidly improving the republicans caine back again, and at once set up the claim that they had a monopoly of ojood times and were kindly letting the country in on them. Now, in spite of good crops good business, and good pr spects smash comes another panic, spreadiug loss and suffering every where, and, to many, ruin. Issu ing bonds in time of peace! The Demoanats had to issue bonds to discharge a duty imposed by law " and here are the republicans is suing interest bearing bonds witl? out authority—not to meet the needs of the government, but just to ra'se more money to deposit in banks without interest. ATI frauds prove boomerangs at last.—Judge Harmon’s Speech at Nashville. Make the stomach happy with a Miona tablet before meals. A guarantee is given by Macnair to return your 50c if Miona fails to cure and form of stomach trouble. PINE TOPS. Miss Em Pender, one of Tar boro's most accomplished young ladies, is teaching in the graded school here. We are glad t j have her with us. Mrs. Henrietta Stallings is still quite sick. i Miss Nannie Edwards is visit ing friends in Fountain. - H. T. Webb, of Rocky Mount, is here on business. John, Farmer, of Pocky Mount, is here buying furs today. The poor crops of last year have not discouraged the old farmers. Now they are busy hauling ferti lizers and making preparations for this year’s crop. Misses Kate Wimberly, Nemmie and Louise Pender, of Tarboro, spent Sunday here with relatives, ihey were escorted by Caswell Sugg, Paul Lawrence and Arthur DeBerry. Joe Norville is now clerking for the Pinetops Supply Company. Willis E. Cobb has a ran line of Postal Cards. No charge for showing them. . j X. HIS WIFE. His wife, they say, is “one in tea” * Faint praise, perhaps, that sounds, < but then ~ ' * It’s something for a woman when 1 That is admitted. She is a wonder so they say, * Extreme) y clever in her way, Of learning makes a great display Is quite quick-witted. At all club meetings she presides, EachjBember by her rule abides 1 Or over them she roughly rides I With comment searing At home she rules with iron haud. There her request is a command, And her poor husband has tosta.i(l ^ Her domineering. Oh, she is no downtrodden worm That hardly dares to feebly squirnr. Her husband serves a heavy term, Poor man!—a “lifer.” To him it cannot be much fun To think how lougnt has to run. She’s one in ten. But she’s the one And he’s the cipher. Bert Barber, of Kltoii, Wis , says: ‘‘I have anly taken 4 doses of your Kidney and Bladder Pills and they have'doue for me more than any other medicine has ever done.” Mr. Barber refers to De Witt’s Kidney and Bladder Pills. Phey are sold by K EL took. II is wel to remember when thinking over the currency ques tion that inflation of -the currency will not always prevent a contrac tion of credits, which is the cause of all panics. Kodol is a scientific prepan\tiou of vegetable acids w ith natural digestants and and contains the same juices found iu a healthy* stomach. Each dose will digest more than 3,000 grains of good food. Sold by R E L Cook. — Chicago News. Bean the Signature at ^The Kind You Haw Always Bought r THE WAGES OF SIN. “Mrs. Anna Bradley, who mur dered Senator Brown and was ac quitted by a jury of tenderhearted men, is almost brokt-n hearted be cau e she is shunned by ‘decent men and women,’ as she puts it rAre none of those who rejoiced at heracquittal offering her sympathy and comfortt”—Buffalo EveuiDg Times. No; not of the kind she evident ly craves—nor will they. That is the m.KJkery of the vengeance such as hers; the gibe of the4*uuwritten law.” It must have warmed her heart at times to read the pathetic things about herself in the news papers; it must have almost, if not quite, convinced her that she was a woman more sinned against than sinning—much more. The tense public interest, the applause' of the hysterical and the senti mental, must have brought her great consolation throughout her ordeal. But this sympathy, ap parently so real, was all on the surface—perhaps not all, but very nearly all. Little of it was abiding; only the merest fraction lasting. After all, there are often w orse punishments than the mere physi cal discomfort a^egal sentence in volves iu criminal cases. The -trusted bank cashier who is sent to a United States penitentiary lor a term of yeais, lor instance, suf fers comparatively nothing, so far as mere liviug and breathing and having Ms being are concerned. It is the linger of scoru that lib must forever thereafter face that brings bis very ?oul down into the dust. It is the disgrace of the i thing; The knowledge that he is a I loathed object for the remainder of his life—a thing too vile for honest men and women to asso ciate with. There is always a right way to do things in this world; likewise a wrong way. Men and women may choose for themselves which way they will proceed. The right way may appear hardest, but it invari ably leads to a happier goal. Lib raries are lull of the works of honest and upright human beings wrho have tried in ooifotless age9 past to drive this thought home to mankind. It was an eternal truth countless years ago; it is as ever lastingly the truth today. Man may doubt it, but he alters it not. Better, a thousand times better, to choose the right way. It’s an old story, but a true one.—Waah ington Herald. STRONG POINTS. The programme to be heard at the opera house February 12th, contains beautiful vocal renditions by the peeeless Sehubert Lady Quartette, delightful selections by their Mandoliu and Guitar Club, artistic violio solos, comic and serious readings by the entertainer and artistic contralto and soprano solos. ELECTRICAL PROGRESS. Last year the people of the United States spent $315,000,000 for electrical manufactures, yet many men still iu active business remember the time when some simple instruments in college lab oratories, without practical utility covered the whole field of electri cal knowledge. This world is una ble to define electricity, but has learned much about what may be done with it.—SL Louis Globe Democrat. * FOUR OLD MAIDS. To hear the Schubert Lady Quartette sing their “Old Maid Song” (especially written for them) •will make arise in the matrimonial market anywhere. This is one of their most fetching encores, aDd as the ladies are many years removed from being old maids themselves, they can enjoy singing of the trials besetting the four maidens of their song. RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT. The directors of the Bank of Tar boro held a meeting Thursday afternoon and adopted the follow ing: Whereas, It has pleased God in His (Providence to remove from our midst John O. Oates one of the Directors of the Bank of Tar boro: Now be it resolved by the Board of Directors of the Bank ofTarboro, in meeting assembled: let. That in the death of John O. Oates, the Bank of T*fboro loses a diligent, competent and faithful officer,'Sand the State a good, loyal,- patriotic and valuable citizen. 2nd. That we extend to his bereaved wife and family our heart felt and sympathetic condolence in their hour of sore affliction. 3rd. That these resolutions be spread on our minutes and a copy be sent to the Tarboro] Southerner with request that same be pub lished. Jno. F. Shackelford, G. M. T. Fountain, Wm. A. Hart, Committee. ^ WOLVES OF THE SEA. Of all "the inhabitarijs of t'u ocean few are more destructive than| the set wolf, a^lcintl ,t <h».l phu which attains}'\v’> n fid guiwn a length of foir te u fi:et tnd a weight of 3,000 j*o in . A S" ift swimmer, it,is quick in its movements, cunning as a fox and has au“insatiable appetite. It feed} ou the youni of >eai, 'hale and walrus and also on the bmgue of the adult whale. When a mother walrus perceives a sea wolf, she endeavors to throw herclub^on to an iceberg if one is near. Failing this, she gets it oh top of her head and swims with it above water. But this is vain. Di*j.jsg far be!owr the fish of prey eomes up with tremendous force, striking the frantic mother a ter I rific blow and jolting the cub otf her head into the water. Here it falls an easy victim to the assail ant and is soon devoured. In its work of destruction the sea wolf is frequently aided by th<* thrasher, a fish which can deliver a terrible blow with its tail. BATTLEBORO AND VICINITY. The store of E. A. Williams was broken into Sunday night, 19th, and 75 cents in nickels and cents w$re missing. The front door of the |tote was broken open. Effort was made to have blood founds ran the trail, but those which arrived about 1 o’clock Mouday could not. ThU is the third time this store has been broken into. An old and respected colored woman, Rita Richmond, fell dead last Thursday while standing at her table ironing clothes. Mrs. G. W. Johnson, of Jarretts, Va., spent several days with her daughter, Mrs. J. B. Stokes. Messrs. Edwards & Co. have moved into their new store, which th y are filling witii a most choice selection of general merchandise. I chronicle another new firm, J. J. Hathaway & Bro., just opened in the new Williams building with a full line of merchandise. The members of both these firms are young men, clever, polite and worthy. I predict for them suc cess. E. A. Williams, who for several weeks has been in Asheville lor his health has returned greatly improved. He will return t*» c>ky land forafew weeks raorehopingto thoroughly regain his health. W. W. ‘/Vick is home from a visit to Jarratts, Va. Rambler. There is just one treatment for catarrh that costs nothing unless it cures—Hyomei. Maenair sells a complete oatfit for tl and guar antees to refund the mouey if it fails to cure catarrh. Try it. „DIED.~ The distressing t ews reached here this morning that Mrs. Sam F. Jenkins succumbed last night to her apoplectic attack.^.She was a most excellent * oman, beloved, esteemed and respected bj* all who knew her, a mother in the truest sense of the word, a wife that was a husband’s helpmate, his com panion, counsellor and friend. Many better men than ^am Jedkins have not been made and he was blessed with a dame that was most worthy of him. Peace to her ashes and a never fading green to her memory which is only of good and kind- womanliness. —The next report on the num ber of bales of cotton ginned will bC ib March hnle§3 a special tabu lation is ordered, which is not probable. March will close the col lecting of such statistics for the cotton year. Kennedy’* Laxative Cough Syr up acts gently but promptly on the bowels. It stops the cough by soothing the throat and lung irri tation. Sold by E E L Cook. Weak Women ' To weak and ailing women, there is at least one way to help. But with that way, two treatments, must he combined. One is local, one Is constitu tional, but both are important, both essential. Dr. Shoop's Night Cure is the Local. Dr. Shoop’s Restorative, the Constitutional. - The former—Dr. Shoop’s Night Cure—is a topical mucous membrane suppository remedy, while Dr. Shoop’s Restorative is wholly an internal treat ment The Restorative reaches throughout the entire system, seeking the repair of all nerve, all tissue, and all blood ailments. r The “Night Cure”, as its name implies, does Its work while you sleep. It soothes sore and inflam ed mucous surfaces, heals local weaknesses and discharges, while the Restorative, eases nervous excitement gives renewed vigor and ambition, builds up wasted tissues, bringing about renewed strength, vigor, and energy. Take Dr. Shoops to the ty 1 For positive local help, use as well Dr. Shoop’s EDGECOMB DRUG CO. JAMES JAILED AGAIN. C. H. Junes, the school teacher, from Man'eo who recently figuree in the sensational arr* st in Yir ginia on a charge of abduction o Miss Midy« tt, cue of his popila, is •'* Jail in Wnmington in default oi Ku+d to app' ar against two younf wliie men bonml to the highei C' urt on a charge of robbing him while he lay druuk on the steps ol a lodging honse back of the Front Street market house a few days ago. Letters found in a dress suit case which was stolen from him disclosed his real identity, as he had given the name of “Charley Jones” when he was arrested. Mayor Springer has written to the authorities at Man teo, Dare county, to know if he is still wanted there. He admits be ing the school teacher James, bnt says he was found not guilty at the trial,, in Manteo, AN ARRIVAL. ‘‘There came to poit iast Sunday night The Queerest little craft, . Without an inch of rigging on. I looked, looked and laughed. “It seemed so curious that she Should cross the unknown water And moor herself within my room, My daughter, O, my daughter! “Yet, by these presents, witness all, She’s welcome fifty times, And comesT consigned to Hope and Love And common meter rhymes. “She has no manifest but this: No flag floats o’er the waier; She’s rather new for British i Lloyd’s— My daughter, O, my daughter! “Ring out. wild bells—and tame ones, too; Ring out the lover’s moon. Ring in the little worsted socks, Ring in the bib and spoon. “Ring out the muse, ring in the . nurse, Ring iu the milk and water; Awav with paper, pen and ink— My daughter, O, my daughter! —-George W. Cable. Nov is the time to use Hyomei and tye cnred of catarrh. Fresh supply just received. Costs noth ing unless it jeures. Macnair. TEACHE1TMAKES A MISTAKE. The pqpils _of the Wilkinson school have the langh on the vet ran instructor of youth, and a much longer play time than has ever been given them before. He w»s hearing a class in Virgil, upon looking at.his watch uttered an exd animation, and rang the bel! for nopn recess The pupils looked surprised, but hesitated not to take it. Mr. Wilkinson hunied over tahis house, issuing a hurried order for his dinner. Finally he began to complain that his dinner was so late. All the assurance of the housekeeper and cook that dinner would be on time, ava led no hing with him till he fouud that he had failed the even ing bfore tft wind up his watch which had stopped at 12.30. He got his dinner on time, but notMiis pupils till time for the af ternoon session. They are smiling ye- oyer a recess exceeding two hours. BOOTY OF A PIRATE. Capt. Ki<kl is the most famous pirate, but Don Pedro Benito was no slouch. Five millions sterling is the legendary value of the booty he is supposed to have buried on Cocos Island, about 400 miles west of Panama, in 1822. The island, about twelve miles in circumfer ence, belongs to Costa Bica. Claude Robert Grieves Robinson, an Eng lishman, who has been stuc^ng the history of Don Pedro, has re ceived the right from the govern ment to search for the buried treas ure. That it is 'not altogether a wild goose chase you can guess from the fact that the grant to Robinson is vigorously disputed by one Cuisder, who has the backing of lord Fitzwilliam. The Scotch family oi Clunies-Ross, who now the fee of Coios Island, might have something to say if the treasure should be turned up.— New Y rk Press. The National Bauk of North America has gone into the hands of a receiver, which w ould indi cafe that they a cstil' treading on dangf-rons financin'* ground in New Ycrk. The boasted republican prosperity seems to be skittish these days. DeWitt’s Carbolized With Ha zel Salve is especially good for piles. Sold by BEL Cook. Use DeWitt’s Little Early Ris ers, pleasgnt little pills. Thfsy are easy to take. Sold by RE L Cook. —Full line of new styles'ju**t received. I. M. McCabe. .1 EnglandSays NO ALU In Food / prohibi the sale of alum baking powder— So does France So does Germany The tale of »lnm foods has been made illegal in Washington and the District of Colum bia, and alum baking powders are everywhere recognized at To protect yourself against alum, when ordering baking powder. Say plainly ROYAL and be very sure you get RoyaL Royal is the only Baking Powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar, . It adds to the digestibility and whole* someness of the food. BAKING POWDER OURlFRUIT CROPS. Dixie is the land of cotton and also of fruit and if we give the same time and attetion to the latter that we do the former the fruit crop would be more valuable and profitable to us than King Cotton. A better knowledge of how to cure and preserve the products our trees should create in the South a deep interest in fruit culture. Recent experiments, says the Washington Post, conducted by the government’s Bureau of Chem isti y appear to be of unusual valne to the fruit growers because they assist materially in the solution of these two problems. The chief reason why cured fra|t8, dried either by evaporation or by the direct rays of the sun, have not found a very wide market has been because most people dislike extreme ly the rat her’ acrid, harsh taste imparted jto dried fruits by the action of the sulphur smoke used in bleaching them. Practically every pound of dried apples, pears, peaches, and apricots thrown on the market has been bleached by this process. TJnsulphurecI fruit turns black and wizened during the drying process and is unsala ble. Bat now come the Bureau of Chemistry ’a experiments to show that a solution of sodium chloride or common salt whitens the fruit better than sulphur smoke, leaves it more tender and entirely free from the disagreeable taste. Also there is no residuum of the slightly poisonous sulpKhr dioxide left in the fruit, as is the case when the sulphur bath is used. This is a discovery of 'the greatest import ance to fruit growers, and espe cially to those of California where the sulphur bleaching process is employed exclusively and un er silly in the great fruit cur ng plants. It means a widely extend ed mirket with better products at a considerable decrease in the cost of curing. As to the utilization of waste fruits, the law has long permitted them to be worked into denatured alcohol without imposing a distil lery tax upon Jihe farmer dr fruit grower who did so. But few farm ers have been able to learn any thing about running a distillery, aod hence almost none of them has taken advantage of this law, It is proposed now to have a represen tative from every agricultural cjllege in the United States come to the Bureau of Chemistry next summer and learn how to make and ioperate a still for the distillation of denatured Alcohol. He can then, on his return, circulate his knowl edgs among he fruit men of his section. If this scheme can be carried out to a practical result it will mean a great saving to the orchardists of the United States and give an im petus to the already growing in dustry. Besides, it will cheapen the price of denatured alcohol and make its use as a brilliant light and an excellent fuel to some extent a matter of general custom. THE THIRTEEN SUPERSTJTION. The 'thirteen superstition has received a set back in the Daily Chronicle. “Five and fifty years ago,” says the writer,-“Lord Bob erts was one of thirteen who sat down to dinner on New Year’s Day at Peshawar. Eleven years later— m though most of them > had beep through the Indian Mutiny, and half of them had been wounded— theyjwere all alive.” Why is thirteen unluckyt It is usually stated that the supers ti tius objection to sitting thirteen at a table in Christian countries was based on the fact of the last sup per, when Christ and His twelve disciples sat down to eat together * immediately before the Saviour was siezed by His enemies. But in the Norse mythology, which is supposed to antedate the intro duction of Christianity among the Northmen, the superstition refer red to the fact that at the banquet of the gods, Loki, the spirit of mischief, intruded himself, mak ing thirteen at the table, where fore thera.__was a fight, and Bal bour, a young hero especially loved by the gods, was killed.—London P. T. OS GOOD BY COMPARISON. Editor Southerner: In finance we are rich or poor by comparison and this holds good in other matters. The two prac ticing physicians of this town ' situated on the dividing line of Nash and Edgecombe, state that the roads in Edgecombe are in comparably superior to those in Nash. M. J. Battle. Whitakers, January, 30t, '08. The Southerner has never ques tioned the superior effectiveness of the present system of working the roads over the old time ante bellum way. But it does contend that as improved as they are, they are not what they should be for the money spent on them and what they wonld be if there were a well digested plan worked out and put into effect Draining has been going on for years, but not as thoroughly and scientifically as it should, while but little or no attemp at grading is to be chronicled. |Some hills it is true, have been cut down, but in no instance has such been made with any view to conforming to a system of grades. Again, with the exception of of draining and grading our roads have beej} worked to the extent that they only need occasional re pairs, until something is done to make the road bed firmer by the proper admixture of clay and sand. It is for this reason that time and again the Southerner has en deavored to point ont the necessity of dividing the roads in the county into sections and employing a man with a mule and cart to look after each section continuously. These section teams can keep 60 or 70 miles in repair and at times have sometwhat to spare, which should ‘ be devoted to hauling clay or sand under the direction of the county supervisor. Unless the roads are so divided or some other method^ of doing ordinary repairing is resorted to, the working of the roads as we are now doing will bring them up to the expected excellence not in fifty years. Divided in to sections and ordi nary repairs provided for, the roads should be drained, graded and the most important ones sur faced with clay and sand in ten years. Why continue to postpone the day of better roads throughout the countyt
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